Confessions heard during the evening vigils.

How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves, in foreign lands and journeys, in riches and glory, in great possessions and pleasures, in diversions and vain things, which have a bitter end! It is the same thing to construct the tower of happiness outside of ourselves as it is to build a house in a place that is consistently shaken by earthquakes. Happiness is found within ourselves, and blessed is the man who has understood this. Happiness is a pure heart, for such a heart becomes the throne of God. Thus says Christ of those who have pure hearts: “I will visit them, and will walk in them, and I will be a God to them, and they will be my people.” (II Cor. 6:16) What can be lacking to them? Nothing, nothing at all! For they have the greatest good in their hearts: God Himself! ~St. Nektarios of Aegina, Path to Happiness

Sat. March 3/Feb. 18
Sun. March 4/Feb. 19

Second Sunday of Great Lent
St. Gregory Palamas

Sat. March 10/Feb. 25
Sun. March 11/Feb. 26

Third Sunday of Great Lent
Veneration of the Cross

Sat. March 17/ March 4
Sun. March 18/ March 5

Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
St. John of the Ladder

Wed. March 22/March 9

Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete / Reading of the life of Saint Mary of Egypt